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The Detroit Institute of Art has been an integral part of Motor City’s fabric since 1885. Today the world-class museum has turned itself inside out by bringing art to the neighborhoods.
DIA also provides free school busses for classroom museum visits. The 658,000 square-foot DIA and its 100 galleries is regarded as one of America’s six premier art museums. A visit with the Institute Director, Salvador Salort Pons and Pam Marcel, Public Relations Director.
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Diego Rivera’s legendary fresco’s detailing Detroit’s automotive industry, with its subtle and yet powerful metaphorical social commentary would be reason enough to plan a visit to the DIA—a showcase of rare and exotic multicultural and multi national works of art from pre history through the 21st Century.
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